Germany is one big swimming pool, trying to integrate the more than a million Middle Eastern refugees and asylum seekers who have arrived in the last couple of years. The most important thing, says ...

In just two days, deer in two different parts of Europe ended up needing a little bit of help from humans. The first incident happened on Monday, when firefighters were called to free a deer that got ...

The city of Göttingen in Lower Saxony, central Germany, will be the first in the country to allow the practice of female topless swimming in its indoor and outdoor pools, thanks to a measure aimed at ...

The issue is simple: If men can swim in pools without covering their torso, why can’t women? Why must female bodies always be sexualized? It’s a controversy that has plagued many German local ...

When you hear that there is an event called the “24-Hour Arena Swim,” what do you think of? Most would automatically think it’s an event reserved for professional swimmers who have been training their ...

BERLIN (AP) — Firefighters have freed a deer that got stuck in an empty swimming pool in a German town, with a little help from a hunter. The fire service in Wetter an der Ruhr, in western Germany, ...

BERLIN (AP) — Olympic swimming bronze medalist Sarah Wellbrock is retiring from the sport a year before the Paris Games because of longstanding health issues, she said Wednesday. The German swimmer ...

Germany’s Florian Wellbrock added a gold medal in marathon swimming to his bronze medal at the pool, romping to a dominant win in the men’s 10-kilometer race at Tokyo Bay on Thursday. Wellbrock ...